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The Etched Hourglass Nebula MyCn 18. II. A Spatio‐kinematic Model

  • Authors: Aditya Dayal, Raghvendra Sahai, Alan M. Watson, John T. Trauger, Christopher J. Burrows, Karl R. Stapelfeldt, and John S. Gallagher III

Sahai et al. 2000 The Astronomical Journal 119 315.

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Caption: Fig. 7.

Schematic showing the emission geometry for a point on the hourglass wall. TT′ represents the tangent to the wall; ON is the normal to the wall. ﹩\overline{r}﹩ is the radially directed vector through the point. R is the radial distance to the point, ξ is the observed offset (§ 2.3), and ﹩\theta _{\mathrm{LOS}\,}﹩ and ﹩\theta _{\mathrm{star}\,}﹩ are as defined in the text (§ 3.2). The flux of ionizing photons incident on the wall is proportional to sin(θstar). The emergent intensity is inversely proportional to sin(﹩\theta _{\mathrm{LOS}\,}﹩).

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